James 1:7-19
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7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
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8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
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9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
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10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
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11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
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12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
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13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
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14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
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15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
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16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.
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17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
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18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
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19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: